Echinolampas Gray 1825 (sea urchin)

Echinoidea - Echinolampadoida - Echinolampadidae

Synonyms: Hypsoclypus Pomel 1869, Palaeolampas Bell 1880

Parent taxon: Echinolampadidae according to A. S. Osborn et al. 2016

See also Clark and Twitchell 1915, Cooke 1942, Durham 1961, Kier 1962, Kier 1966, Kier 1980, Nisiyama 1968, Ragaini 1994, Sanchez-Roig 1953, Sepkoski 2002, Smith 2009 and Squires and Demetrion 1992

Sister taxa: Arnaudaster, Parapygus, Plesiolampas

Subtaxa: Echinolampas (Cylindrolampas) Echinolampas (Cypholampas) Echinolampas (Progonolampas) Echinolampas aldrichi Echinolampas alexandri Echinolampas andalusiensis Echinolampas anguillae Echinolampas appendiculata Echinolampas atascaderensis Echinolampas bombos Echinolampas brachytona Echinolampas castroi Echinolampas clevei Echinolampas consolationis Echinolampas fraasi Echinolampas lechoni Echinolampas leymeriei Echinolampas lycopersicus Echinolampas mestrei Echinolampas ovalis Echinolampas ovatus Echinolampas oviformis Echinolampas perrieri Echinolampas posterocrassus Echinolampas raulini Echinolampas semiorbis Echinolampas tumulus Echinolampas woodringi Echinolampas yoshiwarai Hypsoclypus lucae Palaeolampas alta Palaeolampas plateia

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Type: Echinanthus ovatus

Ecology: epifaunal grazer-deposit feeder

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Barbados (1 collection)

• Pliocene of Mexico (1)

• Miocene of Algeria (2), Australia (6), Austria (2), Bosnia and Herzegovina (1), Brazil (1), Colombia (2), Costa Rica (1), Cuba (4), Egypt (5), France (2), Italy (17), Libya (1), Malta (2), Moldova (2), Morocco (1), Northern Mariana Islands (1), Pakistan (1), Panama (2), Portugal (1), South Africa (1), Spain (2), Tanzania (1)

• Oligocene to Miocene of Malta (5)

• Oligocene of Antigua and Barbuda (1), Cuba (3), Iran (1), Jamaica (2), Jordan (1), United States (13: Alabama, Mississippi)

• Eocene to Oligocene of Cuba (1)

• Eocene of Cuba (2), Egypt (12), France (1), Germany (1), India (1), Libya (8), Mexico (1), New Zealand (1), Pakistan (1), Peru (1), Qatar (4), Turkey (3), United States (26: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina)

• Paleocene of Mali (1)

Total: 150 collections including 184 occurrences

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